Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by a famous ‘spot of time’ from Book I of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. Wordsworth recalls gliding with friends across a frozen lake, their sweeping arcs and quick turns sending echoes across the ice. The cold air sharpens every sound, and the surrounding hills seem to lean in, alive to their movement. It is a memory where exhilaration and landscape merge, capturing the boy’s early sense of nature as presence.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
It was a time of rapture! Clear and loud
The village clock tolled six,—I wheeled about,
Proud and exulting like an untired horse
That cares not for his home. All shod with steel,
We hissed along the polished ice in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures,—the resounding horn,
The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, Skating on a Frozen Lake offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by a famous ‘spot of time’ from Book I of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. Wordsworth recalls gliding with friends across a frozen lake, their sweeping arcs and quick turns sending echoes across the ice. The cold air sharpens every sound, and the surrounding hills seem to lean in, alive to their movement. It is a memory where exhilaration and landscape merge, capturing the boy’s early sense of nature as presence.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
It was a time of rapture! Clear and loud
The village clock tolled six,—I wheeled about,
Proud and exulting like an untired horse
That cares not for his home. All shod with steel,
We hissed along the polished ice in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures,—the resounding horn,
The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, Skating on a Frozen Lake offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
